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Get started9 The Paddocks is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Gainford, Darlington, Darlington (DL2 3GA). It has a recorded floor area of 139 m² (around 1496 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (December 2020) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it C (October 2010); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Good to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 3-band jump.
Sale prices here have outpaced Darlington HPI: 0.7% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £394,000 is 23.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£214/sq ft) was about 27.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 139 m² the property is well over the postcode median (106 m² across 6 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Most recent transfer: February 2021 at £320,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2021.
9 The Paddocks sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
Log burner with external flue to side
Latest sale on 9 The Paddocks was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£394,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 0.7% per year over 17 years.
£320,000
Growth on file: 0.7% per year over 17 years.
EPC Rating for 9 The Paddocks lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£2,302
Street avg £1,979
Floor Area
139 m²
Street avg 109 m²
Habitable Rooms
8 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
46.4dB

17 February 2021Most recent
£320,000
+8.5%over 8 years4 January 2013
£295,000
+3.9%over 9 years21 November 2003
£284,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in DL2 3GA: £210,000 (2024–2014).
Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
7.7 t/year
Street avg 3.6 t/year
DL2 3SL
Spa Road — bus stop.
Closest school
0.3 km
Gainford Church of England Primary School and Preschool. 1 school nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
39.4dB
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